"Tarkan and Hadise were going to come to Elazığ on 7 June. However, because Hadise changed her manager after the Eurovision contest and this didn't suit our arrangements, we had to cancel the contract. We signed Yıldız Tilbe in her place, and we're going to change the billboard posters, too. After we removed Hadise from the concert, 4 people returned their tickets. In response, we've sold far more tickets for Tilbe, and there's an amazing response from neighbouring regions," Çolakoğlu confirmed.

Explaining that Tarkan's fans alone were enough to fill the stadium, and they had encountered no problems in ticket sales, Çolakoğlu also thanked the governor's office of the province for their support and erecting Tarkan billboards all across the region to promote the show.

"We've had a huge response for Tarkan and Tilbe, and we thank everyone for their support," he said.

Female singer and song-writer Tilbe is no stranger to Tarkan, as she recently revealed in a Turkish TV interview that she had collaborated with Tarkan on two songs for the pop star's highly anticipated follow up album to his 2007 Metamorfoz.

If the songs make the album's final cut it will be the first time they have worked together since the mid-1990s, when they had contributed to each other's releases.